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My research focuses on the psychological impact of group-based victimization on political attitudes and relations with members of other groups (other victim groups as well as the perpetrator group). More specifically, I am interested in the social psychological processes and conditions that give rise to constructive, rather than to destructive consequences of collective victimization. I study these questions among various ethnic, religious and national (minority) groups in the U.S., Europe, India, and East Africa. Another focus of my research are psychological processes during (e.g., resistance) and in the aftermath of genocide (e.g., acknowledgment of collective victimization). I have a strong interest in the use of multiple methods, and in the integration of knowledge across subdisciplines (e.g., social psychology and peace psychology) as well as between disciplines (e.g.,history and psychology).

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Primary Interests:

Aggression, Conflict, Peace

Causal Attribution

Culture and Ethnicity

Helping, Prosocial Behavior

Intergroup Relations

Political Psychology

Self and Identity

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Courses Taught:

Experimental Methods in Psychology

Intro to Social Psychology

Prosocial Behavior and Collective Action

Social and Cultural Psychology of Genocide

Social Psychology of Ethnic Violence and its Aftermath (Graduate Seminar)